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A liquid retinal prosthesis

Nature Reviews Materials volume 5, page 559 (2020)Cite this article

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In retinal degenerative diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, the progressive loss of photoreceptors in the retina ultimately leads to loss of vision. Now, as they report in Nature Nanotechnology, Fabio Benfenati, Guglielmo Lanzani and colleagues developed a liquid retinal prosthesis made of photoactive semiconducting polymer nanoparticles that can be directly injected into the eye to functionally replace damaged photoreceptors and restore visual acuity with high spatial resolution.

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Horejs, C. A liquid retinal prosthesis. Nat Rev Mater 5, 559 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-020-0226-9

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